 | 1846 - 810 lehte
...Scawen, esq. This mistress * It is very curious that no editor has observed on that popular couplet, " Princes and lords may flourish and may fade, A breath can make them, as a breath has made;" that it is taken from the following, " C'est une verre qui luit Qu'un souffle... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1791 - 206 lehte
...Where wealth accumulates, and men decay : Princes and lords may flourifh, or may fade; A breath can make them, as a breath has made: But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once deftroy'd, can never be fupply'd. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When every rood... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1800 - 192 lehte
..."Where wealth accumulates, and men decay; Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade; A breath can make them, as a breath has made: But a bold peasantry,...pride, When once destroy'd, can never be supplied. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When ev'ry rood of ground maintain'd its man; For him... | |
 | 1800 - 322 lehte
...Where wealth accumulates, and men decay? Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade: A breath can make them, as a breath has made: But a bold peasantry,...country's pride, When once destroy'd, can never be supply'd. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When ev'ry rood of ground maintain'd its man;... | |
 | Thomas Baldwin - 1802 - 68 lehte
..."Where wealth accumulates, and men decay ; Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade; A breath can make them, as a breath has made-: But a bold peasantry their country's pride, When once destroy *d, can never be supplied.'* « It is an intelligent, virtuous, free and extensive population,... | |
 | 1803 - 294 lehte
...Where wealth accumulates, and men decay. Princes and lords may flourifh, or may fade; A breath can make them, as a breath has made : But a bold peasantry,...pride, » When once destroy'd, can never be supplied. I * THE DESERTED VILLAGE. For him light labour spread her wholesome store ; Just gave what life requir'd,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1803 - 192 lehte
...decay: Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade; A breath can make them, as a breath has made: K But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroy'd, can never be supply'd. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When every rood of ground maintain'd its man;... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1804 - 114 lehte
...Where wealth accumulates, and men decay: Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade; A breath can make them, as a breath has made; But a bold peasantry,...pride, When once destroy'd, can never be supplied. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When every rood of ground maintain'd its man ; For him... | |
 | Alexander Campbell - 1804 - 342 lehte
...Where wealth accumulates, and men decay ; " Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade, " A breath can make them as a breath has made ; " But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, (f When once destroy'd, can never de supplied." 5 GOLDSMITH. And trove a thousand deaths of various... | |
 | Sir John Carr - 1805 - 314 lehte
...no oppression : Princes and Lords may flourish or may fade, A breath can make them, as a hreath hath made; But a bold Peasantry, their Country's pride, When once destroy'd can never be supply'd. The hospitality of the numerous and highly respectable family of the De Conincks, the principal... | |
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Princes and lords may flourish and may fade, A breath can make them as a breath has made; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroy'd, can never be supplied. 
